12/04/06 - A South Valley woman calls police when, she says, she witnessed a Canadian man sexually abusing children live on the internet. **Warning**, this story may be disturbing to some.
The phone sex operator works in the South Valley city of Woodlake, police say her customer called her from Toronto, Canada. The phone sex operator gave Action News a graphic account of what she saw on the web cam that day, most of which Action News could not broadcast.
She did say she saw a customer have sex with a seven-year-old girl while four other young girls watched. "It went pretty far. He was doing really bad things with them," the operator said.
The phone sex operator from Woodlake did not want to be identified. She says a Toronto man called her last week. He said he had a webcam and wanted to bring in his two daughters to "put on a show." So, the sex operator set up her webcam.
Police say 26-year-old Matthew Hughes had five little girls with him, a stash of sex toys, and a repulsive plan.
"They were all crying, they were nervous," the operator said.
The woman says she was shocked and nervous too. She's not completely familiar with computers so she called Woodlake Police.
"They told me to play along with him. I did what I had to do, I humiliated myself to him to keep him going," the operator said.
Woodlake police contacted Homeland Security. Within days investigators traced his web address to his home address in Toronto. Toronto police arrested him but they still don't know who the girls are.
"He described he would bring in his two daughters, but he has no children. So where these girls came from we're not aware yet," said Woodlake Police Chief John Zapalac.
The sex operator isn't being charged with a crime, but Hughes is. Toronto police charged the correctional officer with sexual interference with a person under 14, making child pornography and possessing it. They also took his computer for clues to other possible victims.
"I always believe there is more than one victims. So, we can't have tunnel vision and just focus on one child," said Chief Zapalac.
Toronto police say the girls are not Hughes' daughters and that he doesn't even have children.
They also tell Action News he is a volunteer soccer coach for boys and girls. http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?secti ... id=4823457